Mark Rohman, a re-enactor from James Howard’s Company, right, talks to visitors about his musket and military life during the colonial period at Old Fort Western on Sunday afternoon in Augusta. The fort will be open daily from 1 to 4 p.m. from now till Labor Day and then open those same hours on weekends […]
Joe Phelan
Staff Photographer
Joe Phelan is an award winning journalist who makes photos and videos around the capital area for the the Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel and the other Masthead Maine publications. Joe’s first journalism job was as a kid delivering his hometown newspaper, The Blade, in the suburbs of Toledo, Ohio. Then he worked as reporter and editor for the school newspapers in high school and college and started taking pictures to go with his stories for a local running magazine. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a journalism degree. Before getting hired by MaineToday Media he did a photojournalism internship at the The Plain Dealer and worked as an Associated Press stringer in Cleveland.
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SNAPSHOT: Chasing his shadow
An early morning cyclist heads out of Waterfront Park in Gardiner on a warm, sunny Sunday.
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SNAPSHOT: Monumental task
Nate Taczli power washes one of the monuments in the Hallowell Cemetery on Friday morning. He and another Masciadri Monuments employee were cleaning stones in the cemetery located on Water Street.
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SNAPSHOT: Thank you for your service
Colby Russell-Leo salutes after placing a flag in a holder in front of the gravestone of a veteran Friday at Plains Cemetery in Litchfield.
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SNAPSHOT: Try some of these?
Plant sale organizer Cheryl Edgecomb, left, tells Sherrie Holbrook about some of the plants for sale at the 21st annual Cox Memorial Methodist Plant Sale on Saturday in Hallowell. There were several other plant sales in the area on Saturday.
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Walkers helping those with AIDS
Participants in the AIDS Walk of Central Maine start north from Hallowell on Saturday morning. About 100 people took part in the fundraiser for MaineGeneral Medical Center’s Horizon Program. They walked a five kilometer route from Hallowell to downtown Augusta on Kennebec River Rail Trail and 10 kilometer runners did that twice.
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SNAPSHOT: Counting needles
Linda Lincoln, left, and Maine Forest Service District Forester Morten Moesswilde, center, help third-grader Chris Wilcox count the needles to determine what kind of tree they are examining during an event for Carrie Ricker School students at Smithfield Plantation nature area on Thursday in Litchfield. It had five needles per bundle, so Moesswilde told them […]
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STILL LIFE: Where they make the laws
About seven hours after the Legislature adjourned around 3 a.m. Thursday, Rep. Susan Morissette, R-Winslow, top right, leads a tour of the State House in Augusta for a fifth-grade class from Winslow Elementary.
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SNAPSHOT: Squeegee on the side
Rocky Rocque squeegees off an atrium window on Thursday morning at Don’s Famous Franks on Mt. Vernon Avenue in Augusta. Rocque said that his usual job is “flipping burgers” there but also washes the window when needed.
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SNAPSHOT: Planting day
Robin Wiesner places melon seeds into soil blocks on a rainy afternoon inside an old glass greenhouse at 3 Level Farm in South China. She said that since it has been too wet to plant lately, the greenhouse was getting pretty full of seedlings.